green sickness
nounUK /ˈɡɹiːn ˌsɪknəs/
1
A disease characterized by a greenish tint to the skin; chlorosis.
- She died of cirrhosis, brain fever, consumption and green sickness before she reached twenty.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 35:
2
The abnormal appetite associated with such a disease; pica.
- Derived terms
- greensick, green-sicknessed